{
  "id": "hea-mmr-063",
  "question": "At what rate do mothers die from pregnancy and childbirth in India?",
  "topic": "Health",
  "unit": "per 1,00,000 live births",
  "decimals": 0,
  "measures": "Maternal mortality ratio: maternal deaths per 1,00,000 live births, from the Sample Registration System of the Registrar General of India. A maternal death is a woman's death while pregnant or within 42 days of the end of pregnancy from a cause related to the pregnancy. Maternal deaths are rare, so each figure pools three years (2022-24 covers 2022, 2023 and 2024); the 95% confidence interval for 2022-24 is 78 to 95.",
  "verified": true,
  "source": {
    "name": "Office of the Registrar General, India, Special Bulletin on Maternal Mortality in India 2022-24 (Sample Registration System)",
    "url": "https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/47151",
    "table": "SRS Special Bulletin on Maternal Mortality 2022-24, chart 'MMR in India' (2014-16 to 2022-24) and Table 1 (India); 2014-16 to 2021-23 identical in the 2021-23 bulletin",
    "licence": "GODL-India"
  },
  "released": "2026-05-20",
  "retrieved": "2026-10-18",
  "nextDueBy": "2027-07-19",
  "processing": "Copied as published.",
  "exam": {
    "publisher": "Office of the Registrar General, India (Ministry of Home Affairs)",
    "survey": "Sample Registration System, Special Bulletin on Maternal Mortality in India 2022-24",
    "frequency": "Annual special bulletin of three-year pooled estimates",
    "measures": "Maternal deaths per 1,00,000 live births",
    "notes": [
      "Maternal death: the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of the end of pregnancy, from a cause related to the pregnancy or its management.",
      "Maternal mortality ratio (per 1,00,000 live births) differs from the maternal mortality rate (maternal deaths per lakh women aged 15–49).",
      "Maternal deaths are rare, so three years are pooled and a correction factor adjusts for under-counting.",
      "The 95% confidence interval for 2022-24 is 78 to 95."
    ]
  },
  "targets": [
    {
      "label": "National Health Policy 2017 target",
      "value": 100,
      "by": "2020",
      "source": {
        "name": "Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, National Health Policy 2017, para 2.4.1 (copy hosted by NHSRC)",
        "url": "https://www.nhsrcindia.org/sites/default/files/2021-07/National%20Health%20Policy%202017%20%28English%29%20.pdf"
      }
    }
  ],
  "values": [
    {
      "period": "2014-16",
      "start": "2014",
      "end": "2016",
      "value": 130
    },
    {
      "period": "2015-17",
      "start": "2015",
      "end": "2017",
      "value": 122
    },
    {
      "period": "2016-18",
      "start": "2016",
      "end": "2018",
      "value": 113
    },
    {
      "period": "2017-19",
      "start": "2017",
      "end": "2019",
      "value": 103
    },
    {
      "period": "2018-20",
      "start": "2018",
      "end": "2020",
      "value": 97
    },
    {
      "period": "2019-21",
      "start": "2019",
      "end": "2021",
      "value": 93
    },
    {
      "period": "2020-22",
      "start": "2020",
      "end": "2022",
      "value": 88
    },
    {
      "period": "2021-23",
      "start": "2021",
      "end": "2023",
      "value": 88
    },
    {
      "period": "2022-24",
      "start": "2022",
      "end": "2024",
      "value": 87
    }
  ],
  "page": "https://india.tf/c/hea-mmr-063/",
  "csv": "https://india.tf/c/hea-mmr-063/data.csv",
  "versions": "https://india.tf/c/hea-mmr-063/versions.csv"
}